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The trouble I go to...OK y'all. This file was already uploaded not once, but twice by other people to the Internet Archive. Neither uploader bothered to fix the xml file so that the cover is displayed. But I was willing to let that slide. Except that the pages on both (identical) uploads are out of order. There's a double-sided poster right at the beginning of the file which is all kinds of messed up on both uploaded files. So I decided to upload a corrected version. Except. It's a god damn PDF. Oh, how I hate thee, PDF. Anyone who knows PDFs knows that they aren't made for editing. Not unless you subscribe to Adobe (a minimum of $150 a year). So fixing the page order isn't a simple matter like it would be with a CBR since the jpgs are inaccessible. I've flirted with various PDF to jpg programs over the years, but never been completely satisfied that what I was getting was a direct extraction that was not undergoing any kind of recompression of the jpgs. So I bit down hard on the bullet and found a more-difficult-to-use but completely lossless command-line program which can do the job. Which isn't so bad, really. Command-line programs are sort of just like running MS-DOS, so there's a bit of nostalgic charm to them, but I digress... Anyway, with the file converted losslessly to jpgs, I was able to fix the page order, upload it as a cbr, and set the actual cover as the cover page. So even though the images are all identical to the ones that have already been uploaded twice before, this makes it the first time the file has been uploaded correctly. I'd like to give a shout out to posterity - I did it all for you, my people! For the Sega Saturn, a Shining Force III art/reference book. Third time's the charm. https://archive.org/details/shiningforceiiiofficialsettingdocumentcollection

I know, but I don't know how else to track it! I don't want to work on one issue at a time since it would take longer overall to get them done. Apart from marking everything I have as "Scanning" in the database and threads like this or the general thread for everybody, we don't have an easy way to know who is working on what.

Shining in the Darkness. Twice I tried playing this. Twice I eventually lost interest and stopped. But hey, it was the first decent RPG for the Genesis, so it's at least got historical significance, if not exactly gripping gameplay. https://archive.org/details/shiningthedarknessstrategyguide

For a change of pace, this is an artbook, not strategy guide, for Cyber Troopers Virtual-On Oratorio Tangram, a 1998 arcade fighting game (later ported to the Dreamcast) developed and published by Sega. https://archive.org/details/cybertroopersvirtualonoratoriotangramthesphereoftruth

Usually finding info about the games covered in these guides I upload is a simple affair, but this one was a bit harder to track down. Probably because the game's title is Chinese (even though it's a Japanese game), so most info came from Taiwanese websites written in Mandarin. Chen Uen's Three Kingdoms (鄭問之三国誌) is a strategy game developed by Gamearts similar to Koei's Romance of the Three Kingdoms series. It features the artwork of famed Taiwanese manhwa artist Chen Uen (who passed away in 2017), and was published for the PS2 on November 1, 2001. This guide is part artbook, part strategy. I've never been able to appreciate Koei's games, and I wouldn't be able to get into this one either. Way too many names of people I've never heard of to keep straight in my mind. It's like trying to memorize an entire Pokedex of historical Chinese characters. Worse, even. The latest game touts "over 1000 heroes from history," and reading a list of 1,000 Chinese names and not having them all blur together is something my brain is incapable of doing. Xu Chu, Zhang He, Cao Xiu, Cao Zhen, Cao Chong, Cheng Pu, Ma Chao, Cao Cao, Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan...hell that's only 10 names out of 1,000 and I'm already hopelessly lost. Anyway, here's the guide: https://archive.org/details/chenuensthreekingdomsofficialstrategyandillustrations

And one more for good measure. If you ever thought you needed a Dungeon Master manga in your life, this guide has you covered. https://archive.org/details/dungeonmasterchaosstrikesbackguidebookexpandededition

This guide covers Dungeon Master: Chaos Strikes Back, which was marketed as an expansion for Dungeon Master since it reused the same engine, but it's really a full-fledged sequel. I'm not sure why they decided to call it an expansion, since owning the original is not required, and other series like Wizardry and Might and Magic had already established a precedent of releasing sequels which used the same engines as their predecessors. Maybe since it was designed to be much more difficult than the first game they were afraid it would be too much for Dungeon Master newbs who hadn't already cut their teeth on the first game, but that doesn't seem to be a wise decision from a marketing perspective... https://archive.org/details/dungeonmasterchaosstrikesbackperfectguide